List of Illustrations xi
List of Tables xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Prologue - Who Are America’s Concertmasters? 3
Introduction - How the Concertmaster Role Evolved 7
Johann Sebastian Bach – Georg Pisendel – Christoph Willibald Gluck – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Michael Haydn – Antonio Brunetti – Johann
Stamitz – Christian Cannabich – Luigi Tomasini – Johann Peter Salomon –Rodolphe Kreutzer – Pierre Baillot – Pierre Rode – François-Antoine
Habeneck – Ludwig Spohr – Ferdinand David – Joseph Joachim – Arnold Rosé – Daniel Guilet – Mischa Mischakoff – Joseph Silverstein – Glenn
Dicterow – Jorja Fleezanis
1 - Boston Symphony Orchestra 33
Bernhard Listemann – Franz Kneisel – Enrique Fernández Arbós – Willy Hess – Anton Witek – Fredric Fradkin – Richard Burgin
PROFILE: Joseph Silverstein 54
PROFILE: Malcolm Lowe 73
2 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra 87
Max Bendix – Ernst Wendel – Leopold Kramer – Ludwig Becker – Hans Letz – Harry Weisbach – Jacques Gordon – Mischa Mischakoff – John
Weicher – Sidney Harth – John Weicher – Steven Staryk – Sidney Weiss –Rubén González
PROFILE: Victor Aitay 122
PROFILE: Samuel Magad 136
PROFILE: Robert Chen 147
3 - The Cleveland Orchestra 157
Sol Marcosson – Louis Edlin – Arthur Beckwith – Joseph Fuchs – Hugo Kolberg – Tossy Spivakovsky – Joseph Knitzer – Samuel Thaviu – Josef
Gingold – Daniel Majeske – Martin Chalifour (acting)
PROFILE: Rafael Druian 180
PROFILE: William Preucil 197
4 - Detroit Symphony Orchestra 213
William Grafing King – Ilya Schkolnik – Josef Gingold – Otis Igelman – Henri Nosco – Mischa Mischakoff – Gordon Staples
PROFILE: Emmanuelle Boisvert 232
5 - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra 243
Sylvain Noack – Alfred E. Megerlin – Henry Svedrofsky – Josef Borissoff – John Pennington – Bronislaw Gimpel – Sascha Jacobsen – Jacques Gasselin –
David Frisina – Sidney Weiss – Alexander Treger
PROFILE: Sidney Harth 255
PROFILE: Martin Chalifour 269
6 - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra 281
Ciofi / Giovi – Nahan Franko – Henry Joubert – Clifford Schmidt – Carlos Hasselbrink – Guhlke/Franko – Max Bendix – Eugene Boegner – Gino
Nastrucci – Leopold Kramer – Pierre Henrotte – Eugene Dubois – Pierre Henrotte – Stefan Frenkel – Michael Rosenker – Hugo Kolberg – Felix
Eyle – Guy Lumia – Elmira Darvarova – Konstantin Stoianov – Nick Eanet
PROFILE: Raymond Gniewek 291
PROFILE: David Chan 301
7 - Minnesota Orchestra 309
Frank Danz – Fram Anton Korb – Richard Czerwonky – Guy H. Woodard – Vladimir Graffman – Alfred Megerlin – Elias Breeskin – Gustav Tinlot –
Pierre Henrotte – E. Joseph Shadwick – Harold Ayres – Louis Krasner – Rafael Druian – Norman Carol
PROFILE: Isidor Saslav 318
PROFILE: Lea Foli 328
PROFILE: Jorja Fleezanis 334
8 - New York Philharmonic 351
Edward Woolf – Ureli Corelli Hill – George F. Bristow – Joseph Noll – Franz Herwig – George Matzka – Leopold Meyer – Hermann Brandt –
Richard Arnold – Theodore Spiering – Henry P. Schmitt – Leopold Kramer – Maximilian Pilzer – Alfred Megerlin – Gustav Dannreuther – Nahan Franko –
Carlos Hasselbrink – Henri Joubert – Clifford Schmidt – Max Bendix – Adolf Brodsky – Jules Conus – Jan Koert – David Mannes – Alexander
Saslavsky – Gustave Tinlot – Mischa Mischakoff – Michel Gusikoff – Scipione Guidi – Mishel Piastro – John Corigliano – Jacob Krachmalnick –
David Nadien – Frank Gullino – Rafael Druian – Eliot Chapo – Rodney Friend – Sidney Harth
PROFILE: Glenn Dicterow 377
9 - Philadelphia Orchestra 395
Carl Doell – Elkan Kosman – John Marquardt – Hugo Olk – Michael Svedrofsky – Thaddeus Rich – Michel Gusikoff – Mischa Mischakoff –
Alexander Hilsberg – Jacob Krachmalnick – David Madison (acting) – Anshel Brusilow – Erez Ofer
PROFILE: Norman Carol 403
PROFILE: David Kim 419
10 - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 433
Paul Listemann – Luigi Maria von Kunits – Friedrich Voelker – Wladislaw Wyganowsky – Eduard Tak – Leo Altman – Elias Breeskin – Charles
Marsh – Milton Lomask – Michel Gusikoff – Hugo Kolberg – Henri Temianka – Michael Rosenker – Samuel Thaviu – Fritz Siegal
PROFILE: Andrés Cárdenes 446
11 - Toronto Symphony Orchestra 461
M. Garten – Donald Heins – Elie Spivak – Hyman Goodman – Gerard Kantarjian – Albert Pratz – Moshe Murvitz – Jascha Milkis, Gerald Jarvis,
Philippe Djokic (acting)
PROFILE: Steven Staryk 468
PROFILE: Jacques Israelievitch 480
12 - Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: A Summer Orchestra 493
Mischa Mischakoff – Millard Taylor – Gerald Jarvis
PROFILE: Brian Reagin 501
Afterword - Paradox of the Concertmaster Position 511
Appendices
1 Concertmasters and Their Violins 517
2 Premieres Performed by America’s Concertmasters 531
Bibliography 537
Index 551